Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps dead at 84

[DonViejo]

TOPEKA, Kan. — Anti-gay extremist Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, has died, according to his son, Timothy Phelps.

Family members told local media that Phelps died shortly before Midnight last night.

Phelps, 84, founded the Topeka, Kan.-based church in 1955. The group has been involved in actions against gays since at least 1991, and first came into the national spotlight in 1998, when it picketed at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured near Laramie, Wyo., in October 1998, then tied to a fence and left to die.

In 2011, the church stated that it had about 40 members, almost all of which are members of Phelps’ extended family.

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http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/03/westboro-baptist-church-founder-fred-phelps-dead-at-84/

[Gothmog]

1. May he rest in peace

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Further proof

that the good die young.

[SomethingFishy]

3. Oh how I wish I could have been there when he met his maker...

I'm not one to dance on someones grave, but I'll piss on his.

I know it's not politically correct now that he's dead, but fuck Fred Phelps. I hope he doesn't "RIP" I hope in his afterlife he receives the pain he delivered his whole life to others 10 fold.
The man was a disgusting piece of shit. He made his living by antagonizing people in pain, people who were grieving, he would antagonize them over and over hoping to get them to do something that he could sue them for so he could continue to finance his mission of spreading pain everywhere he went. The world is better off without him and I'm not going to apologize for saying so.